Literary Terms

English 3A

Final

Affix

Allegory

Alliteration

Allusion

Analogy

Antonym

Archetype

Autobiography

Blank Verse

Cadence

Climax

Complications

Conflict

-Internal Conflict

-External Conflict

-Man Vs Man

-Man vs. Nature

-Man vs. Self

Connotation

Denotation

Dialect

Dialogue

Diction

Etymology

Exposition

Figurative Language

-Metaphor

-Simile

-Personification

Foreshadowing

Form

Free Verse

Generalization

Imagery

Irony

-Situational Irony

-Dramatic Irony

-Verbal Irony

Mood

Motivation

Narrative Poem

Narrative Voice

-1st, 2nd, 3rd person

-Omnipotent, Limited

Parallelism

Parallel Structure

Tone

Repetition

Rhyme

-Rhyme Scheme

-End Rhyme

-Slant Rhyme

Rhythm

Setting

Sonnet

Stanza

Style

Suffix

Symbolism

Synonym

Theme

Tone

Vernacular

Types of Writing

Dark Romantics

Deist

Naturalism

Ironist

Rationalism

Regionalism

Romanticism

Transcendentalism